Posted by: CT. February 25, 2009
Should Private School in Nepal Pay Taxes?
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Education sector should not be taxed, but the private schools in Nepal are operating like family owned business houses. They are not transparent, are making a lot of money and are owned by a few people. With heavy charges on students they increase their financial assets in geometric order. Those parents who pay their hard-earned money do not own anything that the schools have. So, the schools are operating like a service providing industry, which is wrong.

Baburam and company does not want to fix this problem by forcing the schools come out from the business model operation. They don't want to make these private schools transparent. They don't want to turn these PRIVATE schools into Private-Public community owned schools. They don't want to make these schools cheap favoring parents. But they want to charge tax on the rampant looting ongoing in education sector and maintain integrety of the business oriented schooling system.

Charging tax will not affect these private schools at all, because they will start increasing fee adding the financial load to parents soon or late. In the long run, this policy will suffer ordinary citizen and ruin the education sector. So, despite being disappointed by these money-hungry private schools' rampant charge and unjustice to students and parents, I am not in favor of taxation policy in the education sector. The government must bring a new policy to clean up the mess in the private education sector.



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